Department of Health Systems Administration Welcomes
New Faculty Member
Robert Carr, MD, MPH, recently joined the Department of Health Systems Administration as the director of the Executive MHSA Program. Carr brings more than 30 years of clinical care, health systems and performance consulting, and pharmaceutical industry leadership to his role in the department. As senior vice president and corporate medical director (retired 2014) at GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's largest multinational pharmaceutical and consumer health care companies, Carr provided strategic direction and leadership in all areas of employee health and performance for a workforce of nearly 100,000 employees who generated annual revenues of almost $40 billion in 2014. For more information about the Executive MHSA Program visit http://nhs.georgetown.edu/healthsystems/executive-master-of-science-EMHSA.
Stoto Publishes Papers Examining Issues of Population Health Measurement in Health Care Settings
Michael A. Stoto, PhD, professor of health systems administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies, recently published two papers looking at issues of population health measurement in health care settings. The first, “Community Health Needs Assessments – Aligning the Interests of Public Health and the Healthcare Delivery System to Improve Population Health” (with Colleen Ryan-Smith), was published as a Discussion Paper by the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and is available at http://www.iom.edu/CHNAalignment. The second paper builds on the first and is titled “Population Health Measurement: Applying Performance Measurement Concepts in Population Health Settings.” It is available in eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to Improve Patient Outcomes) at http://repository.academyhealth.org/egems/vol2/iss4/6.